On 1 September 2016 at 20:43, Dominikus Dittes Scherkl via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote: > On Thursday, 1 September 2016 at 05:37:50 UTC, Manu wrote: >> >> Consider that more overloads are being introduced by users spread out >> across many modules that define their own kind of T; this solution is no >> good. > > > Simply > void f(T)(T t) > { > static if(isSomething!T) > { > } > else static if(isSomethingElse!T) > { > } > else > { > } > } > > I personally hate overloads, especially if the condition has a fallback, so > I like to see no condition in the function signature, what makes for a much > cleaner API. > I have never seen what benefit could be gained from having overloads. I > think they are a relict from languages without static if.
I think you must have not read the line of text that you replied to...